The same goes for email addresses, using the mailto: prefix e.g. mailto:foo@bar.com, will launch your email client.

More shortcuts can be added to ~/.gmrunrc (covered below) or you can modify the system-wide file at /usr/share/gmrun/gmrunc.

You can enter search mode by entering ! as the first letter, the title should change from Run program to Search, letters you input will then automatically come up with suggestions from your command history.

Ctrl-r will allow you to search backwards through that history.

Ctrl-s will search forward through the history.

Ctrl-g will cancel the search.

If an extension has been defined in the configuration file, files can be launched by the correct program just by typing the file name.

Press Esc to close Gmrun, without running anything.

Configuration

The configuration file is located at /usr/share/gmrun/gmrunrc but you can create a per-user configuration (recommended) in ~/.gmrunrc. Please note that %u is expanded to the full command entered, %s is the last part after the shortcut (e.g. if you enter the URL https://www.archlinux.org, %u would expand to https://www.archlinux.org and %s would expand to //www.archlinux.org.